I'm trying to figure if it's possible & how to have hanging indents in Mobipocket books. The Mobipocket developer documentation suggests that negative paragraph indentation is possible, but nothing I've tried has actually rendered a hanging indent in Mobipocket Reader Desktop 6.2. Mobigen mangles a negative CSS 'text-indent' into a negative "width" attribute, but no combination of <blockquotes> and <p> tags with various "width" attributes has produced a hanging indent for me.

I'm not quite seeing it... The way I'm understanding that, it could work if the "hanging" vs. "indented" parts are already in separate block-level elements, but I can already handle that with separate <p> and <blockquote> tags (<blockquote> being Mobipocket speak for 'margin-left: 1em').

I'm not quite seeing it... The way I'm understanding that, it could work if the "hanging" vs. "indented" parts are already in separate block-level elements, but I can already handle that with separate <p> and <blockquote> tags (<blockquote> being Mobipocket speak for 'margin-left: 1em').

I'm trying to figure if it's possible & how to have hanging indents in Mobipocket books.

According to the documentation, <p width="-2em">Paragraph text</p> should do that, but I gather you've already tried that, and I seem to remember I tried it some time ago and it didn't work, at least in the Cybook and in my version of the desktop reader.

I realise that this is not a hanging indent - it indents all the text in the paragraph - but it does work.

Regards, Alex

No, it does not Alex. What happens is that you have a body that has larger margins than normal. For this to be working to some extent, you have to have those hanging indents all over the text without exception.

I wonder to what extent the hanging indents, if at all feasible, are portable to other formats (epub should be no prob, but LRF and IMP?) That is always very important for me. I prefer "my" books to have largely the same look and feel in all the formats.

No, it does not Alex. What happens is that you have a body that has larger margins than normal. For this to be working to some extent, you have to have those hanging indents all over the text without exception.

I wonder to what extent the hanging indents, if at all feasible, are portable to other formats (epub should be no prob, but LRF and IMP?) That is always very important for me. I prefer "my" books to have largely the same look and feel in all the formats.